Funny story, when I was the exec. chef for an account at a small-ish university I originally had each station offering a vegan/vegetarian option in the main cafe after a huge renovation, that didn’t sit well with the student body so we dedicated one of the 8 stations as exclusively vegan/vegetarian (while maintaining the original veg options available on the other stations).
I regularly sat with individual students to address alternative dietary needs, allergies, etc. Along with the two FOH managers who were absolutely two of the most wholesome people I have ever worked with.
So we sat down with one young gentleman whom I have met with on a couple occasions, he was a grumpy little shit.
Anyway, he absolutely lauded the vegan/vegetarian station-by far the best food in the cafe. “So good, fresh, nutritional, but…but…”:
"could you please just put some meat there? Maybe just chicken, but something?’
“okay maybe you’re missing the point of having an exclusively vegan/vegetarian station”
“But…they don’t have to eat it!”
Round and round for about an hour like this and he just didn’t get it.
Its so incredibly hard to find a filling vegan meal on my campus. I have a salad bar. Thats it.
Have you tried communicating with the front desk or sending a request email to the admin office?
I remember when my residential college tried to have “meat free mondays” the gym bros were in an uproar as though the cafeteria was supposed to cater to their hobby
The cafeteria staff should’ve gave them extra falafels, beans and lentils and redirected them to the role model Patrik Baboumian.
This does require them to actually not mess it up
